Writing, marketing and technology
I sometimes wonder if computer viruses and internet fraud are just the trolls non-techies have to pay in order to go online. Some friends of mine and I used to joke that there should be some kind of geek test before people are given an ISP account for their computer. But Jenny from the Geek [...]
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They say that the shorter a man’s epitaph, the more important he was. And since Steve Jobs was the master of elegant minimalism, Apple’s home page today couldn’t be more fitting. As a writer, I can’t help but admire its economy. At Articulate, I work for HP and Microsoft but I’m a bit of a [...]
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Moleskine has long been the geek notebook of choice. Yes, the paper quality is good. Yes, they do a Pac-Man version (I bought one and gave the stickers away to a friend. I need to buy another one now!). Yes, famous people used them. But they’re not very …. geeky. Now, Filofax has developed the [...]
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Over the last year, my company Articulate Marketing, has been working with HP to create lots of advice, information and tips for owner-managers of growing businesses. If you like the stuff here on Bad Language, I think you’ll enjoy my other work. Join the HP Business Answers community on: The Business Answers blog (Daily posts [...]
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I run a specialist, successful marketing agency (www.articulatemarketing.com) and I am just starting a new online business (www.turbinehq.com). I work from home in Chiswick and I’m crazy busy. I am looking for a permanent, part-time, ‘virtual’ PA to take care of day-to-day administrative tasks efficiently and reliably. By virtual, I mean that you can mostly [...]
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I think this this guy has completely figured it out. What an amazing world we live in – flight, computers, internet etc. – and yet everyone’s pissed off all the time. “You’re sitting in a chair … in the sky” and “Give it a second! It’s going into space!” I couldn’t agree more. As they [...]
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I have just launched Turbine, the easy way to take care of business admin including HR records, staff time-off, purchase requests and, soon, expenses and timesheets. (Check it out – feedback welcome!) It has been in development for a year. Here are some lessons that I have learned along the way: Turbine screen shot showing [...]
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Despite this blog’s name, I very rarely talk about profanity and swearing. However, this blog post caught my eye. Daniel Huffman has produced a heatmap of swearwords in geotagged tweets to show where people swear the most in the US. Fascinating. I’d love to see something similar for the UK. My bet is that we [...]
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Ik dacht dat dit foto heel grappig was. Ik lachte.
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Matthew Stibbe is CEO of Articulate Marketing and Turbine, the easy, online way to deal with office paperwork. He edits Golf Hotel Whiskey and writes the Forbes Aviator column.
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